The 3rd Quarter (July to September) of 2012 was just an awesome time here at Design Sojourn. We were engaged to run a number of Design Driven Innovation and Design Thinking workshops, and it was
I was not going to blog about the big Apple vs. Samsung IP battle, as in my view IP and patent battles are only for organizations with deep pockets and that the money used to pay
I am really excited to announced that I will be at the D.Confestival in Potsdam Germany from the 20th to 22th of September 2012!
More information after the jump.
Dear Bill,
Thanks for everything! You will be missed.
Warm Regards
Brian.
(Check out the memorial videos after the jump.)
Tucker Marion, Sebastian Fixson and Marc H. Meyer, writes a wonderful piece for the MIT Sloan Management Review on the challenges of Digital Design without good Design Management. Here is an excerpt:
So, what’s the problem? There are potentially two. First, because the technology makes
We are now accepting applications for our 5th Introduction to Design Thinking workshop. I’m also happy to say that the workshop has been updated with new awesome content. We live and breath Design Thinking, so we took in the feedback and validation by
The Cult of Done Manifesto is perfect for any creative, but procrastination prone, mind. The meaning of the images is after the jump.
I'm not sure if I should jump for joy, laugh or cry? Perhaps I should just sit dumbfounded. Forbes recently reported a new trend in Silicon Valley; Venture Capitalists are now funding Start-Ups with no idea what they are going to do. Sounds like
In Chapter 13 of the Steve Jobs Biography, Walter Isaacson describes how in the creation of the first Mac, Jobs formed a development team that operated outside of the boundaries of the Apple organization and was filled with people that "were creative, wickedly smart, and
People loved Sparrow, a clean and simple Gmail client for the Mac and iOS. But nobody knew by how much until they sold-out. The internet was just a buzz with unhappy people, myself included.
So I missed the Microsoft Surface launch big time. It was only recently that I managed to have a look at what this product means to the industry.
Peter Bright, at ArsTechnica, writes an insightful
I agree.
I frequently work with small to medium sized businesses (including boot-strapping start-ups) and have to adopt a similar frugal mindset. Sometimes these quick solutions can create value that can go a long way.
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I've written before about how excited I am about the merger between Microsoft and Nokia. More so when the folks from Fleishman-Hillard kindly invited me to
Innovation, and even Design Thinking, often gets killed by organizational processes or internal politics. Here is a really cool cartoon that shows you how it happens so that at least, we can all be vigilant.
We have three picks for you this week that hopefully epitomizes what we think are the coolest Industrial Design projects on Kickstarter. We hope you enjoy reading this article as much as we did selecting these projects! If you are running a crowd funding program
Everyone knows who David Ogilvy is.
He is probably one of the worlds greatest "ad men" and the likely inspiration to Mad Men. In 1948, David started Ogilvy & Mather, an advertising agency responsible for some
Our 4th Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 4 is finally back!
Though slightly delayed (we skipped our last one due to some administrative matters), we are now never more ready to facilitate 2 days of awesome design
Ingo Rauth, a friend of Design Sojourn and graduate of our Designer Mentoring Program back in 2009, shares a wonderful find on his blog: A 1972 made for Herman Miller video interview on Design with
If you have not read the Steve Jobs Biography by Walter Isaacson, the next best thing would probably be this video by Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor-at-large at Fortune.
When we iterated in a Design Process, it is actually a refinement activity where one evolution gives way to the next evolution. However when developing a design, especially when the design is complex, a simple iteration does not deal with the myriad of other